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[00:22:59] I never want it to go away.
[00:23:01] GaJuda on.
[00:23:03] You know what I mean?
[00:23:05] A movie on, a 후ndion, A CaPickenon
[00:23:07] .
[00:23:09] .
[00:23:11] The Hololifeon.
[00:23:12] Your finger
[00:23:13] on the pulse of the Universe...
[00:23:16] ...
[00:23:17] I don't know how many people
[00:23:18] even see them take notice.
[00:23:19] But this time, you can catch them.
[00:23:20] Keep your eyes peeled for those cobalt mornings and enjoy them
[00:23:25] They inspire a great greed in me, you know I realized like
[00:23:30] A thousand lifetimes wouldn't give me enough of these
[00:23:36] Rainy blue mornings
[00:23:39] So with that as my setting I be on the couch
[00:23:45] You know
[00:23:47] contemplating
[00:23:48] Local threats
[00:23:50] and Tifa
[00:23:53] You know BLM's and the rioting populations
[00:23:58] Palestinians spray painting or Palestinian movement rioters
[00:24:03] Protesters, whatever you want to call pardon me spray painting things on trash cans and on buildings in the city
[00:24:09] I see it
[00:24:12] Wondering to myself if if they spray paint free guys are on a building is that enough to keep them at bay?
[00:24:20] Or is that just the beginning
[00:24:23] Do you understand
[00:24:28] Wondering of course about food
[00:24:33] But probably wondering about World War III and about nuclear war and about
[00:24:38] How probably overestimating the size and scope of a nuclear weapon hitting Washington DC never even
[00:24:47] Wondering about a nuclear weapon hitting Norfolk
[00:24:51] right
[00:24:52] For what why
[00:24:56] Within the mind that I had before all this prepping madness that would have never crossed my mind ports
[00:25:03] defense
[00:25:04] You know
[00:25:05] Naval yards as as attack points now all none of that existed in my head
[00:25:11] I would have said yay, you blew up the White House. The Russians will blow the White House up or the Chinese that makes sense
[00:25:18] Independence day alien style
[00:25:26] So I imagine I would I would be brought into sort of like a deep anxiety over
[00:25:31] You know just that the threats that loom
[00:25:38] I'd have to imagine that I would address food first
[00:25:42] I would address food first
[00:25:45] And if I were in the position where I had a small garden
[00:25:49] And that's all and hadn't done anything to try and get chickens legalized here or ever had chickens
[00:25:56] um
[00:25:57] I have to imagine what I do next would be the same thing I tell you guys to do and if you can't grow anything
[00:26:03] if you're in a suburb and
[00:26:05] Or even an urban situation where
[00:26:08] You're shaded out by big beautiful trees that you love
[00:26:13] You can't get chickens, you know, whatever if you can't grow jack
[00:26:18] The first thing that I would do
[00:26:21] Is I would start to develop a a deeper relationship with the people from the farmer's market
[00:26:28] Um down the street
[00:26:31] That's what I would do first
[00:26:34] That says we wouldn't have a community garden
[00:26:36] So I wouldn't have that either
[00:26:38] That was clearly out of preparedness
[00:26:41] That whole initiative in my neighborhood came straight out of prepping
[00:26:46] As a means to bring our community together
[00:26:48] And it you know, it has its ups and downs
[00:26:53] So
[00:26:56] Yeah
[00:26:57] I think food would be the first thing I would address
[00:27:01] I would likely address it with budget in mind
[00:27:05] And probably begin by putting boxes of food on the pantry and cans of food in the pantry
[00:27:14] Because I would understand the potential of long-term
[00:27:18] Uh, uh, storage of canned food I would understand box dry goods and that kind of thing
[00:27:24] I would probably move towards mountain house and those types of things
[00:27:30] Um
[00:27:32] They would make more sense to me than putting rice in five gallon buckets
[00:27:36] Not that I wouldn't understand the concept of having lots of rice in the house
[00:27:40] But maybe I would never have imagined taking a sack of rice
[00:27:44] Putting it into a metal metallic bag that heat seals
[00:27:49] And putting it in a bucket
[00:27:52] I
[00:27:53] Probably would if I had the money I probably would
[00:27:56] Um purchase some
[00:28:00] Survival food
[00:28:02] I think I'd go that direction, you know, I might even fall for something like a like a four-patriot's ad
[00:28:09] You know what I mean by a 72 hour kit
[00:28:14] And I say fall for because
[00:28:16] Not that it's a four-patriot's 72 hour kit is not a great thing to have on hand
[00:28:22] It's just my cost for
[00:28:26] Bucketing food up myself is so much different and better
[00:28:34] So I have to imagine that food would be a thing
[00:28:38] Food would be a thing
[00:28:40] Um
[00:28:41] It would probably be one of the first things
[00:28:43] I
[00:28:45] Have to imagine that
[00:28:48] And this I'm going off of some of the steps I did take
[00:28:51] Before I was a prepper, but as I was awakening
[00:28:55] And I remember it is clear as day
[00:28:58] I remember watching the Flores guy
[00:29:02] I can't remember the Flores guys name
[00:29:06] Ray Flores or something
[00:29:09] Mark Reynolds is with us. What is up
[00:29:12] Garden girl. I'm so sorry. How you guys doing. Thanks so much for joining in
[00:29:19] Mark Reynolds says
[00:29:21] Just saying hello and hope all are staying as sane as possible in crazy times
[00:29:26] Well, I'll tell you right now, man
[00:29:28] it uh
[00:29:30] It helps to be prepped up
[00:29:32] But I remember watching this Flores character on a on a show that you guys may have watched as well
[00:29:38] Let's see if I can find it
[00:29:41] Flores
[00:29:44] Survival host
[00:29:47] I'm pretty sure his name is Flores
[00:29:51] Is that him? Jace Flores
[00:29:54] Better known by a screen name is Filipino from at the papa. Is that him?
[00:29:59] That might not be him
[00:30:02] Not that's a survivor guy from the survivor show
[00:30:05] I don't know. I can't remember it
[00:30:10] But basically the show was an urban survival show
[00:30:14] And this guy was making his way through sort of an urban environment
[00:30:18] And he was showing you where to get gas and lean from a gas station
[00:30:23] How to take the cap off how to siphon the gas
[00:30:25] He was showing you how to cross a bridge using paracord which
[00:30:30] And a grappling hook which I don't think
[00:30:34] That method would ever work
[00:30:37] Now that I think about it um for the average person anyway
[00:30:42] So
[00:30:44] I was I remember clearly
[00:30:46] watching this guy
[00:30:49] While I was updating the locks and dead bolts in my home
[00:30:54] And this was early early early early
[00:30:57] I think I was home with my son maybe
[00:31:01] I don't I can't remember all the details
[00:31:04] But I think my second order of effects would be fortification of the home
[00:31:09] fortification of the home
[00:31:12] Now there's a good chance I would have never heard of the company named
[00:31:15] Uh the company that produces door armor
[00:31:19] Which is a really great prep guys
[00:31:22] You know, it's just just basically
[00:31:25] steel plating for your door frames
[00:31:30] And you know it makes them impossible to
[00:31:33] uh
[00:31:35] crowbar right
[00:31:39] And you can install the steel plating on your
[00:31:46] Hinges sorry
[00:31:48] Your hinges you can also install the steel plating on from door armor
[00:31:52] I should contact those guys and see if they want to be a sponsor here at PBN because the door armor is legit
[00:31:59] It's been on my house so long that you I forget about it
[00:32:02] Doesn't even cross my mind
[00:32:04] It's weird right?
[00:32:06] It's one of those preps that's been around so many years 10 plus years
[00:32:10] You don't have to think about it you don't have to worry about it. It's called door armor
[00:32:14] And uh it sits right there you install it drill it into your wall
[00:32:20] Uh into your door frame deep screws
[00:32:24] Same thing with your hinges
[00:32:26] You can put plates metal plates on both your strike panel your striking uh
[00:32:32] Strike panel what's it called
[00:32:35] Anyway you fortify your entire door essentially
[00:32:40] And it you know you'll wake up before anybody wants of getting in
[00:32:45] You know that's assuming you have no other alarms of any kind
[00:32:48] I wouldn't be out there rigging up trip wires
[00:32:52] But I can tell you I would probably begin um by upgrading the security in my home
[00:32:59] If it were 2024
[00:33:03] April 4th 2024 I would I would invest in probably solar flood lights
[00:33:09] Solar flood lights are great they work well. They're super bright
[00:33:14] Um, they're super affordable. I think I got solar flood lights around here for like 35 bucks each
[00:33:23] Highly effective motion motion sensitive the whole thing right
[00:33:29] Why do you get this solar you get this solar so that the worst case scenario
[00:33:34] You got a flood light right?
[00:33:36] You want a flood light in the worst case scenario you want a flood light when there's no power
[00:33:41] Right that's when you want a flood light
[00:33:44] So, you know set it up properly make sure it gets enough sun and you have flood light
[00:33:49] um
[00:33:51] That's an important one for me put that up put some kind of exterior excess lighting
[00:33:58] Remember I'm not this is not me preparing
[00:34:01] This is not me waking up in the world as collapsed
[00:34:03] This is me waking up and realizing the world is collapsing
[00:34:07] And I'm totally unprepared for it
[00:34:10] That's the concept here
[00:34:14] And we've deduced thus far
[00:34:17] Uh, that I would first begin with a threat analysis
[00:34:20] I wouldn't know what a threat analysis was
[00:34:23] But I think just by nature of living on the planet
[00:34:29] Um and reading the day-to-day news you would start to tell yourself
[00:34:33] You know, there's a lot of threats let's order these things in likelihood of killing me in my family right
[00:34:41] Um, I guess I would create probably in the midst of addressing food concerns and security concerns
[00:34:50] I would probably create along with the threat analysis like some kind of a window of time
[00:34:58] Do you know what I mean?
[00:35:00] And I would have to imagine that window of time would have to be November
[00:35:04] I think I would say all right we've got to give our all
[00:35:12] Because we're not exactly sure what's going to happen after November
[00:35:16] And by January it could be much worse
[00:35:19] Right by January we could be
[00:35:22] Looking back longingly for November
[00:35:27] Because you know in January is when if Donald Trump is to win the election
[00:35:33] The house will have to
[00:35:36] Bend at the knee right
[00:35:41] But don't worry because the you know the Democrat
[00:35:44] um majority house will
[00:35:47] Have no problem because they're incapable of in the same way that white people are in in capable of experiencing racism
[00:35:54] Um
[00:35:57] The Democrats are incapable of conducting an insurrection
[00:36:00] So don't worry but they won't be hauled off
[00:36:03] To sit in a jail cell for six months or solitary confinement while they wait for their trial. Don't worry
[00:36:11] But I'd give myself some kind of time window some kind of time frame
[00:36:15] When we're gonna get all this stuff done by how much of this stuff can we get done realistically
[00:36:24] And though I didn't start carrying a handgun until 2017 I think with the
[00:36:28] To
[00:36:29] Having lived through the pandemic having seen the BLM riots having you know ever going on Twitter even once um
[00:36:39] I think a pretty soon after those things I would consider what it what's it gonna take to carry a firearm every day
[00:36:45] What's the concealed carry permit process
[00:36:48] What do I have to do to be able to carry a firearm
[00:36:52] You know
[00:36:55] Now's where it's getting interesting right because we're talking about the first steps
[00:37:01] And I'm somewhat guessing you know, it's all hypothetical
[00:37:04] But I'm telling myself that I would do a threat analysis. I would concern myself with food
[00:37:10] I would concern myself with security
[00:37:13] Um of the home in particular
[00:37:16] And then I would concern myself with
[00:37:18] Firearms and protection in that regard
[00:37:25] I think that's pretty good. I'm going completely off the cuff here
[00:37:31] I think that's pretty good. I think that's a pretty good start
[00:37:36] I don't I wonder when I would get to water
[00:37:39] Now see we do have a creek
[00:37:43] So I mean it may take me a long time before I think to think about water the way that I need to think about it
[00:37:49] You know, I think it would take a long time
[00:37:51] For me to realize oh
[00:37:54] I
[00:37:56] Need water. I need a way to clean water. I need a way to filter and you know boil all that kind of stuff
[00:38:01] because remember
[00:38:03] I wouldn't have any skills whatsoever in terms of bushcraft outside of fishing
[00:38:08] And whatever
[00:38:10] rudimentary navigation I learned just from being in the woods
[00:38:16] I mean, I've only really been failed by navigation once in my life
[00:38:20] Couple no twice
[00:38:24] So I got a pretty good instinct in terms of you know finding the sun and fine, you know all that kind of stuff
[00:38:34] Wilderness survival skills could come up
[00:38:37] Could come up next see you have to understand and a lot of people don't know this part of my story
[00:38:44] But it's a part worth telling
[00:38:46] It's a very interesting
[00:38:48] bit of
[00:38:50] Intrepid commander lore
[00:38:54] When I got here
[00:38:57] I guess it didn't change the mail over effectively
[00:39:01] And I started getting these magazines
[00:39:04] For my neighbor. I'm sorry from now for my neighbor for the person who lived here before me
[00:39:10] And I started getting these magazines called cheaper than dirt
[00:39:15] I don't even know if they're around anymore. I know they got a website
[00:39:19] But they used to mail out hard copy magazines sales magazines monthly
[00:39:23] And I get this cheap and the dirt magazine man, and I'd look at the front of it in the front of it was all guns and gun parts and ammunition
[00:39:30] stuff I didn't care about
[00:39:32] and
[00:39:34] But then as you got to the back it started to get a little weird
[00:39:37] Started to get a little spy geary. It started to get a little prepary
[00:39:40] Started to get a little gas masky started to get a little hidden compartmenty
[00:39:45] A little survival cashy a little ammo candy
[00:39:50] Right
[00:39:53] And in a way
[00:39:55] Those magazines started to turn me
[00:39:59] They started to turn me
[00:40:02] Turn out the guy who lived here before me was ill
[00:40:07] It was part of the reason they were selling
[00:40:10] And he died you know
[00:40:15] I'll never forget it under the house
[00:40:17] This big metal chest
[00:40:20] Not really a chest big metal container with a hinged lid
[00:40:25] And I drug it out one day
[00:40:27] Thought it'd be filled with spiders and stuff but I wanted to see what you know it's my house. What's underneath of it
[00:40:32] It's my house now
[00:40:34] Responsible for this stuff
[00:40:36] Um, and I opened that thing up and
[00:40:42] It was full of
[00:40:44] All kinds of stuff
[00:40:46] All kinds of hunting camping and trapping gear
[00:40:52] Some urine
[00:40:54] For it's sent a single man tent
[00:40:58] A beautiful orange beanie that I still wear today
[00:41:02] Um
[00:41:05] The blaze orange vests
[00:41:08] Paul traps
[00:41:11] What else was in there
[00:41:15] Just a variety of these items
[00:41:18] That were all related to sort of outdoorsy stuff
[00:41:22] Hunting trapping camping
[00:41:26] And I always joked at like when I lifted that lid
[00:41:29] The condensed spirit of the man who lived here before me who was
[00:41:34] Way more switched on than me right because he was getting these cheaper than dirt magazines and he was also
[00:41:40] A doing those kinds of things
[00:41:42] I always joked that that spirit possessed me in that moment
[00:41:46] Like his spirit came out of that metal container and possessed me
[00:41:51] And for then on it was it was just him battling for my attention
[00:41:56] Pushing me in the right direction
[00:41:58] And uh, I don't know man
[00:42:01] It always seemed that way to me
[00:42:03] I know it's a wacky way to put it. It's wacky wacky take
[00:42:07] um
[00:42:08] But it always felt that way to me really did
[00:42:12] It always felt like he had a hand in it there was some kind of a hand in it all
[00:42:19] So
[00:42:22] Those things would have been found eventually and I have to imagine that
[00:42:26] That bushcraft and sort of survivalist skill thing
[00:42:30] Would be where I'd go next because I like many people
[00:42:34] Would not have a bug out location
[00:42:37] I like many people would understand that if I had to leave in a hurry
[00:42:42] And something were to affect the roads or my ability to use my vehicle
[00:42:48] That
[00:42:49] We would make that error that so many people make which is we're gonna head to the woods to live
[00:42:56] You know what I mean? We're gonna head to the woods to survive and overnight. I'm gonna go from
[00:43:03] 9 to 5 chef to
[00:43:07] militant bushcraft hunting fishing trapping expert and
[00:43:13] My family's gonna love it and they're gonna live in a hut made of sticks
[00:43:18] And they're gonna stay warm all winter
[00:43:21] You know hut made of sticks with a fire in it
[00:43:24] And we're all gonna eat well on tubers and tiny fruits
[00:43:29] And meager rations of meat that we have to figure out how to preserve over months
[00:43:36] And that's my bug out plan. That's gonna go well
[00:43:41] And this is one of the reasons I always caution you guys to like calm down with the bushcraft shelter building
[00:43:48] You know, we do bushcraft for preppers on the membership side and we do it because there are some bushcraft skills trapping
[00:43:54] wood carving
[00:43:57] Amongst others fire making of course that I think are really essential
[00:44:02] But truth be told there's a lot of stuff out there you shouldn't be wasting your time on if you want to do it in your free time
[00:44:06] That's another thing right but but learning to build an a frame learning to build a lean to shelter
[00:44:14] uh
[00:44:16] It's not high on the pro shouldn't be high on your priority list
[00:44:20] You should be saying to yourself. I need a better answer
[00:44:23] For if my family and I are thrust out of our home
[00:44:27] The next step should not be
[00:44:30] The unforgiving wilderness
[00:44:34] Because other than right now there's really no good time
[00:44:39] To have a family completely entirely
[00:44:42] Living in the woods for extended period
[00:44:46] You know like right now is about the best time
[00:44:49] Um because there's no bugs
[00:44:52] It's relatively
[00:44:55] uh
[00:44:56] Warm at least in my neck of the woods it's gonna get cold tomorrow, but it's relatively warm decent. You're not gonna freeze
[00:45:03] um
[00:45:06] And you know those conditions are important. It's not too overgrown you can get around a little bit
[00:45:12] You won't be you know punished by poison ivy or oak or sumac
[00:45:18] But before long the bugs will come the ticks will come the triggers will come the mosquitoes will come the hot temperatures sleeping at night when it's
[00:45:25] 79 degrees in the woods
[00:45:28] Is not nice not fun really
[00:45:32] And now imagining pile on top of your family with it
[00:45:36] If you know what I mean
[00:45:39] So uh
[00:45:43] But I imagine I would fall into that trap
[00:45:45] I think a lot of people do fall into that trap and I don't think it's because there's anything wrong with them
[00:45:49] I don't think it's because it's a lack of intelligence or anything like that. It's just so many things about prepping
[00:45:56] The average person doesn't know
[00:45:59] And they don't even know what they don't know
[00:46:03] Right they're putting this thing together in their head under complete stress
[00:46:07] And no matter when you got into prepping that's likely the case
[00:46:11] Right, it's likely the case that you got into this thing under duress
[00:46:16] You weren't like living a great life looking around saying man everything is wonderful
[00:46:22] Instead of going
[00:46:24] um
[00:46:26] Out on a hike this weekend
[00:46:28] I'm gonna put rice in buckets for the fun of it
[00:46:32] You know what I mean you don't get there that way
[00:46:35] You will arrive at the doorstep of preparedness because you're scared you're nervous you're worried
[00:46:41] So then you're forced to make decisions with that in the back your head and you know they can't all be great
[00:46:46] They can't all be great, right
[00:46:49] Good night mark. We do appreciate you my man and uh
[00:46:53] Yeah, dig deep into this group
[00:46:56] Got a lot of good people here
[00:46:58] They're over there in the element chat folks you go to prepperbraudcazzing.com you go to the live show uh
[00:47:05] Up there on the nav bar
[00:47:09] And you can join the live show you can join the live chats very easy going element sign up
[00:47:14] And if you like it if you go in the live chat and you're like man
[00:47:17] I like this element businesses kind of cool encrypted chat room just for the PBN family. I like it
[00:47:23] I get a bunch of rooms. I'll invite you to
[00:47:25] Okay
[00:47:27] If you're a member and you're not an element you're doing yourself a grave disservice
[00:47:33] We have a members-only room
[00:47:35] I put all the notifications to new members content into that members-only room
[00:47:40] Members first looks
[00:47:42] members videos podcast all kinds of stuff comes through that
[00:47:46] members-only room in element
[00:47:49] Please get in there if you're not in there reach out to me say hey, I want to get in there
[00:47:57] It's great. Okay
[00:47:59] So
[00:48:03] I'd play around with this idea for a while that i'm going to be you know uh
[00:48:09] tarzan
[00:48:12] Because I wouldn't be able to wrap my head around my family's needs. I don't think in and desires and you know
[00:48:19] The very realities of the people that you're going to be surviving with
[00:48:24] You know, it's not it's not like what we did
[00:48:28] What we did of a month ago
[00:48:32] Two months ago now with Gotham get out
[00:48:35] What been the breaker of banksters future Dan and myself and Dave Jones did that day that night
[00:48:43] I would never want to do that with my family
[00:48:46] If that were the situation that I went with my family and listen we were outfitted
[00:48:52] Really well
[00:48:54] Like if it wasn't so late and so cold
[00:48:57] We could have made an even better shelter and been even kept even warmer
[00:49:01] um
[00:49:04] But to imagine being in that situation with my family it's
[00:49:07] Really really bad
[00:49:10] really bad you know
[00:49:16] So you know just being aware of that
[00:49:19] overestimating my abilities
[00:49:22] Probably another thing I'd be doing
[00:49:24] lamenting budget
[00:49:26] Probably a thing that I'd be doing
[00:49:28] lamenting that I only have this amount of dollars to put into the survival of my family
[00:49:33] Which is a problem that all preppers particularly early on
[00:49:36] struggle with right
[00:49:38] I've only got this much money to put into prepping
[00:49:41] this week this month whatever and
[00:49:45] The freaking world's falling apart
[00:49:51] I have to imagine that eventually I'd wind up at backup power
[00:49:55] Probably before first date
[00:49:59] I'm sure there are certain medications
[00:50:03] Medication certainly over bandages and things like that maybe hydration
[00:50:09] That I would store in excess because in my head it would just make sense
[00:50:15] But as far as the learning of skills and the acquiring of books like William forgies
[00:50:19] Preppers medical handbook
[00:50:22] I wouldn't have any of that stuff. I wouldn't have the giant doomsday book of medicine
[00:50:27] You know, which is a great one. I wouldn't have that stuff
[00:50:32] For what I wouldn't have Dave Canterbury's bushcraft first aid
[00:50:40] I don't know how long it would take for me to get
[00:50:43] Into prepping deep enough where I would say to myself I need these hard copy books and then to figure out
[00:50:49] What those hard copy books even look like
[00:50:52] Which ones I need
[00:50:54] I do have a book list a reading a master sort of reading list that I need to get you guys
[00:51:02] It's a collection of books sort of all about
[00:51:06] That would sort like the reading list you would want to have
[00:51:11] It's pretty cool
[00:51:13] One of you know the 7,000 projects I'm working on at any good given moment
[00:51:17] So I'd want to shore up food. I think if I've started buying
[00:51:26] Survival food
[00:51:28] Then that might turn my head in my attention towards water possibly
[00:51:33] But I know for a fact I'd want to keep the cell phones on I'm going to keep the lights on
[00:51:37] I'd want to keep some entertainment on that would be a big deal
[00:51:41] I was accosted
[00:51:43] By my brother-in-law when I bought a generator. I'll never forget it
[00:51:47] And actually I think I would have a generator because I didn't buy the generator because I was a prepper
[00:51:55] I bought the generator because when we got here
[00:52:00] We got a lot of trees
[00:52:02] Big beautiful trees. It's an old neighborhood
[00:52:07] And when I got here they were falling into the power lines all the time
[00:52:11] So our power was out all the time until my wife and I said you know what let's take our tax return this year and buy a generator
[00:52:17] So we would have that so maybe I would consider having more gasoline on hand. That could be something
[00:52:29] Back-up power solutions very important
[00:52:32] Would we know that we may consider an evacuation? Maybe something like that in evacuation plan. I'm not sure
[00:52:41] It would be a slow and prodding process, you know, it would be a slow because it is
[00:52:46] And that's what you have to remember
[00:52:49] Particularly if you're listening to this taking notes and going maybe I should start this way
[00:52:54] It may I mean it may work
[00:52:56] You also got to consider the skills that you come with
[00:53:00] And how that affects your early days in preparedness but
[00:53:04] Not until eight years in
[00:53:07] In all honesty
[00:53:09] Seven eight years something like that that I start to say like I'm getting somewhere now
[00:53:16] No, those for the first two years of prepping
[00:53:20] Well, I didn't have the resources that are out there now
[00:53:24] But there was still some decent resources you know
[00:53:27] But those first couple years man. I was doing all kinds of things wrong
[00:53:31] I was thinking wrong. I was buying the wrong things. I was packing the wrong things
[00:53:37] Um
[00:53:38] So you'd have to add in for that too you got to add in for those failures
[00:53:46] But it really is one foot in front of the other
[00:53:50] You know if you're
[00:53:52] ill prepared or not prepared at all
[00:53:56] It really comes and or even if you're very prepared
[00:54:00] It is still the myth of cissophess
[00:54:03] Right is it's pushed the rock up the hill every day
[00:54:10] Now in my at my point it really does become a lot about maintenance. I'll tell you that much
[00:54:15] You get to where I am now and if you start to worry a lot more about maintenance
[00:54:20] Of preps and of prepping processes and of skills right
[00:54:25] Because when you're new you start acquiring new skills
[00:54:28] And when you acquire a new skill you're like oh, this is really cool
[00:54:32] But then as years go on though that that skill that you're
[00:54:35] acquired begins to diminish
[00:54:38] And you got to step the game up bring it back to life hone it shave sharpen it right
[00:54:45] I
[00:54:47] Wouldn't have my people
[00:54:50] I wouldn't have the great hosts here at the prepper broadcasting network. I wouldn't have rick Austin and the
[00:54:57] And the prepper camp family over there
[00:55:02] That would be
[00:55:04] The greatest wound of all that would be the gaping chest sucking wound
[00:55:11] That would make it the hardest if I woke up tomorrow
[00:55:20] Completely unprepared
[00:55:23] Is that I wouldn't have my team. I wouldn't have my my local community. I wouldn't have my
[00:55:29] Virginia preppers
[00:55:31] I wouldn't have my greater
[00:55:35] United States PBN family
[00:55:37] US and Canada right
[00:55:42] All of you incredible people who you know whether you know it or not
[00:55:47] Play a role in my overall preparedness
[00:55:51] And the best thing that you can do if you're listening to my words right now trying to take things to the next level
[00:55:56] Is to dig into this PBN family
[00:56:01] I mean it really is so
[00:56:04] I'm gonna end it there folks. I hope you enjoyed the little thought experiment probably worth doing to yourself
[00:56:11] Learn a lot um
[00:56:14] But it's 10 p.m. Folks
[00:56:17] I've had it
[00:56:20] It's been a hell of a long day
[00:56:23] I'm gonna sign off. I'm gonna go lay in my comfy bed with my wonderful wife
[00:56:29] And dream sweet dreams without care
[00:56:32] I hope you do the same
[00:56:34] Talk soon everybody see you
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